From owner-freebsd-current Mon Jan 10 22:40:20 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from picalon.gun.de (picalon.gun.de [192.109.159.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0880815092 for ; Mon, 10 Jan 2000 22:40:17 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from andreas@klemm.gtn.com) Received: from klemm.gtn.com (pppak04.gtn.com [194.231.123.169]) by picalon.gun.de (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id HAA16233; Tue, 11 Jan 2000 07:40:13 +0100 (MET) Received: (from andreas@localhost) by klemm.gtn.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id HAA31316; Tue, 11 Jan 2000 07:39:40 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from andreas) Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2000 07:39:40 +0100 From: Andreas Klemm To: George Cox Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: -pipe switch in kernel compilation Message-ID: <20000111073939.A31293@titan.klemm.gtn.com> References: <20000110165543.A5720@extremis.demon.co.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: <20000110165543.A5720@extremis.demon.co.uk>; from gjvc@extremis.demon.co.uk on Mon, Jan 10, 2000 at 04:55:43PM +0000 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 4.0-CURRENT SMP X-Disclaimer: A free society is one where it is safe to be unpopular Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, Jan 10, 2000 at 04:55:43PM +0000, George Cox wrote: > G'day, > > While compiling a kernel today, I noticed that the '-pipe' option to gcc > was not being used. Is there any reason for this? I think this is the (historical) default, so that people with only 4-8 MB of RAM don't get into trouble ;-) Where 4 MB isn't sufficient anymore with a GENERIC kernel. You need at least 6 MB or so to boot, then compile a custom kernel and then, if you are lucky, can perhaps run with 4 MB. But that information is about 1-2 years old, don't know, if we perhaps already need 6-8 MB nowadays... Though it's zillions better than M$ crap. -- Andreas Klemm http://www.FreeBSD.ORG/~andreas http://www.freebsd.org/~fsmp/SMP/SMP.html powered by Symmetric MultiProcessor FreeBSD Get new songs from our band: http://www.freebsd.org/~andreas/64bits/index.html To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message